OK, just in case anyone was curious....
GARDENING IS HARD WORK.
I spent today on the tractor, preparing the garden. 5 gallons or so of diesel fuel, a couple quarts of hydraulic fluid, several square inches of skin, four quarts of water, half a tube of sunscreen later, our garden (about 3/4 of an acre) is plowed, tilled and ready for planting..
Oh, next week I have to fix the irrigation line and the fence. The wife will transplant the started plants this week, and I get to plant the seeds. What fun.
This year we're doing potatoes in tires...we'll see how it works.
Last year we had a problem with deer (and an elk) jumping the fence(s) and getting into the garden. Our dogs would just get them riled up, and they'd damage more of the crop. This year, we have a plan: Our Siberian Husky is shedding like there's no tomorrow, and the fur we save from that gets tied to the fence (later, when the crops start growing) to dissuade the deer from jumping the fence. We'll see if that works.
Emergency Medicine - saving the world from themselves, one at a time.
"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."
I make the ADL soil themselves. And that makes me very happy
